Lasse Münstermann

Lasse Münstermann (born 6 April 1979) is a German retired snooker player and pundit.[2] He began playing at the age of 11, and in 1994 he played in his first World Amateur Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. For a year he trained in England at the Rushden Snooker Academy, where prominent snooker players like Peter Ebdon, James Wattana and Ding Junhui studied.

Lasse Münstermann
Born (1979-04-06) 6 April 1979
Göttingen, Lower Saxony
Sport country Germany
Professional2000/2001
Career winnings£4,324[1]
Highest break134 (2005 PIOS – Event 2)
Century breaks1[1]
Best ranking finishWildcard (2011 German Masters)

Career

Münstermann is the winner of several German Championships (Team: 1995 and 2005; double: 1994 and 1997; Single: 2003, 2004 and 2006; U21: 2000).[3] His success in the European tour gave him a place on the main tour and 2001 World Snooker Championship in the 2000–01 season, but it was short-lived. At the 2005 World Games he reached the quarter-finals. For Germany, he was part of a team with Sascha Lippe and Itaro Santos which won the European Team Snooker Championship in Ghent, Belgium, in early 2007. He qualified for the Players Tour Championship 2010/2011, which was held in Germany. He has also contributed to PAT (Playing Ability Test) Snooker along with Thomas Hein, Thomas Moser and Frank Schröder.[4]

Tournament wins

Amateur
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 1. 2001 German Amateur Championship Sascha Diemer 2–4
Winner 2. 2003 German Amateur Championship Kurt Stock 4–2
Winner 3. 2004 German Amateur Championship Sascha Lippe 4–0
Runner-up 4. 2005 German Amateur Championship Itaro Santos 0–4
Winner 5. 2006 German Amateur Championship Itaro Santos 4–3
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References
  1. "Lasse Munstermann". CueTracker – Snooker Database. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. "Keine Visionen, kein Star" (in German). Faz.net. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  3. "German Snooker History". Global-snooker.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  4. Hein, Thomas (2 July 2013). PAT Snooker Vol.2: A Systematic Approach to Practice. Litho-Verlag eK. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-941484-25-2.


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